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Betrayal Ideas

The next word that we have to create a piece form is ‘Betrayal’ and so we had a few ideas, but almost immediately we decided that we would use the idea of betrayal within a relationship, and the idea of a cheating partner. We then came up with the idea of there at first being a flashback to the protagonist finding out that her partner has cheated, and him leaving. We then used an idea that we had both had for a video for quite a while, which is the protagonist being in a white room, and in a white dress, and their being black paint (blood) being thrown by her at the walls. The idea of the white dress and the black paint is taken from this music video by the Dixie Chicks: http://youtu.be/pojL_35QlSI

We also took the idea of a cheating partner, betrayal and costume and black blood/ paint idea also from this video by Christina Perri: http://youtu.be/8v_4O44sfjM We loved the way that the black and the white costumes in this piece contrast and how this shows the good and evil at work in the music video. We also loved the effect of the black water expelling out of their bodies showing their jar with their hearts inside, and this is what gave us the idea to use the black paint as blood.  At this point we also decided that we were going to make a music video for this project so we started researching songs to use. We tried songs such as Your Betrayal by Bullet For My Valentine http://youtu.be/IHgFJEJgUrg however we both and trouble deciding on a song, and plus we felt it wouldn’t work as it was male’s singing and the protagonist was female. However we did take from this that editing techniques and colouring is very important in music video and is widely used.  Then we also thought about using some Evanesance songs as the singer of that was female, http://youtu.be/Ih61MJ72v1Y (fan made video) however this song is unrelated to the idea of betrayal, and is too slow and we felt like it was unconnected to our video so we quickly looked for different songs.  Then soon we found the song No Light, No Light, by Florence and The Machine, we really liked this song because the lyrics were perfect and the song was the right tempo, and off course sung by a female, and easy to decide upon as we both love Florence.

However upon listning to this with the lyrics:

You are the hole in my head
You are the space in my bed
You are the silence in between
What I thought and what I said

You are the night-time fear
You are the morning when it's clear
When it's over your start

You're my head
You're my heart

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day

You can choose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay

No light, no light
No light

Tell me what you want me to say
Through the crowded islands
Crying out at me
In your place there were a thousand other faces

I will disappear in plain sight
Heaven help me
I need to make it right
You are the revelation
You are to get it right
And it's a conversation
I just can't have tonight

You want a revelation
Some kind of revolution
You are the revelation

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day

You can choose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay

No light, no light
No light

Tell me what you want me to say
But would you leave me,
If I told you what I've done

And would you leave me
If I told you what I've become
'Cause it's so easy,
To sing it to a crowd
But it's so hard, my love
To say it to you, all alone

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent

A revelation in the light of day,
You can choose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay

No light, no light
No light

Tell me what you want me to say
You are the revelation
You are to get it right
But, it's a conversation
I just can't have tonight
You are the revelation
Some kind of resolution.

You are the revelation.
You are the revelation
You are to get it right.

But, it's a conversation,
I just can't have tonight.
You are the revelation
Some kind of revolution
Tell me what you want me to say

So we decided that because of the lyrics the protagonist would have to be the one that cheated, which shifted our video and so we had to devise a new way of performing the video and with the flashbacks.

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